There are implications for Canadian policy as well, for our comprehensive public health care system was significantly influenced by Britain, and Nightingale is the source of the earliest vision of a comprehensive public health care system, itself framed within the context of a welfare state or “social safety net” as it is often now called in Canada.Īs well as proposing a model for reform Nightingale contributed much practical work to the early stages of implementation. Here I propose to present her rather differently, as a major formulator of public health policy, in this the 150th anniversary of the launching of her social reform career (on return from the Crimean War in August 1856). of Sociology, University of Guelphįlorence Nightingale (1820-1910) is still typically thought of as the heroine of the Crimean War, the major founder of the modern profession of nursing and a hospital expert. Paper for Origins of Public Health Policy Florence Nightingale’s Sermon “Strait is the Gate”įlorence Nightingale and Public Health Policy: Theory, Activism and Public Administration.Celebration of the Life of Florence Nightingale, 2014.Address for Commemoration of Florence Nightingale.

Address for 2020 Bicentenary of Nightingale’s Birth.

Florence Nightingale’s Radical Approach to Public Health Care.

Florence Nightingale: Maternal Mortality and Gender Politics.

Florence Nightingale and the Foundations of Public Health Care, as seen through her Collected Works.Florence Nightingale and the Christian Origins of Public Health Care.Florence Nightingale and Public Health Policy: Theory, Activism and Public Administration.Nightingale paper: Groniek issue on women The Timeless Wisdom of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale: Social Theory and Methodology Florence Nightingale: Statistics to Save Lives Florence Nightingale: Passionate Statistician Florence Nightingale, Statistics and the Crimean War

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